Institute of Philosophy and Art History

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The institute consists of two departments: philosophy and art history.

Main research areas

Since the winter semester 2016/17, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has established a DFG Research Training Group, "Cultures of Critique. Forms, Media, Effects", in which the IPK is significantly involved (speaker: Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen).

The Institute is also represented at the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies for Culture and Society (co-director: Prof. Dr. Susanne Leeb) and is significantly involved in the Center for Critical Studies (speaker: Dr. Ben Trott).

With the Lichtenberg Professorship (Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Leuphana University has the first permanent full professorship dedicated entirely to questions of provenance research, looted art, and restitution.

The Kunstraum, which is connected to the Institute of Philosophy and Art History, offers a close practical connection to contemporary art and its actors.

  1. 2018
  2. 1968 and the consequences for a Postcolonial Art History

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. The Machine as Myth

    Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Reforming the Formless

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Speaker)

    14.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. Morgan O’Hara: Live Transmissions - 2018

    Breimaier, A. (Organiser)

    26.04.201830.05.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  6. Producing Roma Feminist Art

    Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)

    21.04.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsResearch

  7. A Body is an Archive

    Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)

    20.04.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsResearch

  8. Hollis Frampton: ADSVMVS ABSVMVS, In memory of Hollis William Frampton, Sr., 1913–1980, abest - 2018

    Breimaier, A. (Organiser) & Gründig, M. (Organiser)

    13.04.201831.05.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  9. Association for Art History Annual Conference - 2018

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Organiser) & Hegenbart, D. S. (Organiser)

    07.04.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  10. Institute of Philosophy and Art History (Organisational unit)

    Nigro, R. (Member)

    04.201810.2020

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  11. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Nigro, R. (Member)

    04.201803.2022

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer